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Old 07-02-2008, 09:44 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Martin writes:
| On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:34:03 -0000, Gill Matthews Try the wrote:
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| The soil has to be quite wrm for nematodes to work. I have seen different
| temperatures quoted on different products, but I think the coolest was 10
| degrees C and it seems unlikely that you would have soil as consistnetly warm
| as this and snowdrops at the same time.
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| All our snowdrops are in flower and even the air isn't as warm as that.

That's what she said!

Snowdrops don't need above 5 Celsius to flower, and aren't too worried
if the soil is only just above freezing.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.